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Test 1
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
10/15/2012

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expression of polygenic traits:
Definition
is determined by genes at several loci in conjunction with environmental factors.
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Margaret Mead:
Definition
An early cultural anthropologist who worked in Papua New Guinea.
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Microevolution
Definition
is the evolutionary change over the few generations
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DNA replication
Definition
Produces two identical daughter cells
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gene pool
Definition
The individual genotypes in breeding population taken as a whole
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Directional section
Definition
The type of selection that favored progressively larger brain size in human evolution
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biocultural anthropology
Definition
EXAMINES THE INTERACTION between genetics and culture in shaping human biology
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nondisjunction
Definition
During meiosis chromosomes sometimes fail to properly segreate
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Alfred Wallance
Definition
An english naturalist who arrived at the many of the smae conculsions as darwin.
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Phenotype
Definition
The physical expression of an organisms genetic constitution
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Homeotic (hox)
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responsible for the development and location of key body parts
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endogamous
Definition
demes in which marriage and reproduction take place from within groups
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Founder effect
Definition
The absence of the A and B alleles in Native American populations
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